Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Pink, Daniel H.
Pink takes a look at much the same evidence base as Lawrence and Nohria do in Driven with a slightly different purpose. His take is that organizations rely too heavily on extrinsic motivators (carrots and sticks) at the expense of tapping into much [...]
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Pressfield, Steven
I recently finished Seth Godin’s excellent new book Linchpin (see Choosing to Draw Your Own Maps for my review). In it, he devotes a central chapter to the notion of resistance and how we get in our own way [...]
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Andy Lippman, at MIT’s Media Lab, offers provocative examples of learning how to think in network terms when designing services in a recent blog post from the Communications Futures Program at MIT. At the very heart of the Internet’s design is a notion called the end-to-end principle (PDF). The best network is one [...]
Tagged Design, end-to-end, Social mediaLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?, Godin, Seth
Seth Godin continues his quest to become the next Tom Peters. Linchpin is the latest installment of Godin’s advice to today’s knowledge workers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Here he shifts his focus from broader issues of marketing to the individual.
Godin is the latest in a long line of thinkers [...]
Like everyone else who’s awake, my long-time friend and colleague Keri Pearlson and I have been trying to make sense out of the uptake of new "social" technologies into organizations. We are noodling on the hypothesis that the CIO represents the best choice if an organization wants to develop a social technology strategy that is [...]
Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Social mediaI’m turning into a bit of a Hans Rosling groupie, having blogged about several of his previous performances at TED conferences (Hans Rosling talk on world economic development myths and realities and More insights from Hans Rosling at TED 2007). Most recently, he presented at TED India. He’s a wonderful story teller and watching his [...]
Tagged analytics, BI, StoryPatti Anklam and I have reconnected after first meeting several years ago. We navigate in the same circles and our networks overlap, but I hadn’t been carefully following her work. My mistake and I’ve fixed that now. Here’s a recent piece from her with a very good overview presentation on moving from a general understanding [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, Social mediaWhat this graphic and the underlying data analysis show more than anything else is how little evidence and rational analysis have to do with most decisions by most people. We can lament that all we want. If you’re running a lottery, you make money off this predictable irrationality. On the other hand, if you’re committed [...]
Tagged decision makingDriven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices,
Lawrence, Paul R. and Nitin Nohria
What happens when you combine what we are learning about evolutionary biology with what we have learned about how organizations work? One of the wellsprings of thinking about organization and organization design has been the Organizational Behavior group at the Harvard Business [...]
One of the lovely things about the Internet is that the good stuff is there whenever you finally manage to stumble across it (so is the crap, but that’s another story). I’m in the process of cleaning up a bunch of stuff that has been lingering in my various queues and stopped long enough to [...]
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